[Last Updated: 5 January, 2009]
There are lots of premium WordPress themes around these days, and we try to showcase most of them here at Premium WordPress. However premium (paid) WordPress themes come in varying levels of quality. To make it easier to find the best premium WordPress themes we have compiled galleries of the highest quality premium WordPress themes available for each major style of theme.
The themes in the galleries below are not listed in any particular order, however they represent the best premium WordPress themes currently available for purchase. They are dynamic galleries which will be continually updated, and new themes added when other top quality themes are released.
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Best Magazine / News Premium WordPress Themes
Best Business & CMS Premium WordPress Themes
Best Video & Multimedia Premium WordPress Themes
Best Blog Premium WordPress Themes
Magazine / News Premium WordPress Themes
Busy Bee
A stylish, versatile premium WordPress theme from Woo Themes. The Busy Bee theme supports a large amount of multimedia content and can be used for a news / magazine site or alternatively for a personal blog or business website. The theme features 9 dedicated advertising blocks, with an easy to integrate Adsense option, 13 colour styles, completely widgetized sidebars and footer space, and an integrated theme options panel which allows you to tweak and customise the theme to suit your needs.
Price: Single Use: $70, Developer: $150
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WPSN (WordPress Sports Network)
A newspaper / magazine style premium WordPress theme from Style WP which is based on the ESPN website. This well constructed theme is ideal for a news / media publishing portal. Features a comprehensive theme control panel with 91 settings, integrated ads, dynamic drop-down menus and multiple promotional blocks.
Price: $38
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Revolution Lifestyle
3 column magazine style premium WordPress theme from Revolution Two.
Features
- Drop down category menus and page menus
- Rotating featured article section on homepage
- Widget ready
- Google AdSense integration
- Section, Archive, Blog page templates
- Theme options panel
Price Church Theme Package: $59.95
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Revolution Church
Dark 3 column magazine style premium WordPress theme from Revolution Two.
Features
- Drop down category menus and page menus
- Rotating featured article section on homepage
- Widget ready
- Google AdSense integration
- Section, Archive, Blog page templates
- Theme options panel
Price: Church Theme Package: $59.95
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Credit Crunch
A magazine style money and business WordPress theme. The theme features powerful customisation options, automatic image resizing, 4 page templates to choose from, plus tabbed widgets and drop-down menus for tidy navigation.
Price: Single Use License: $70, Unlimited License: $249
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Playmaker
A news and media publishing portal theme for WordPress. The Playmaker theme allows you to the turn the power and flexibility of WordPress into a dynamic content management system that is search engine friendly and easy to manage on a daily basis. Features a comprehensive theme control panel (74 settings), Dynamic drop-down menu, Multiple promotional blocks, Variety of social links coded into the theme, plus much more.
Price: $37
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Gotham News
A clean and elegant magazine / news premium WordPress theme. The theme features a built-in option to centre of left align the layout, automatic image resizer, integrated options panel and comes with 8 colour options.
Price: Single Use Package: $70, Multi Use Package: $150
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Onyx
A dark magazine / news portal style premium WordPress theme from StyleWP which will enable you to get a magazine or news website up and running quickly. The theme features 5 columns (4 actual and 1 floating), 4 widgetised areas and a comprehensive theme control panel with 71 settings. The footer is fully configured via the control panel allowing you to promote your YouTube, MySpace, Twitter and Flickr pages with ease, and the whole theme has the option to be left-aligned or centre aligned.
Price: $37
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WordPress Newspaper
A newspaper style premium WordPress theme from Gabfire. The theme features a unique newspaper layout and is advertisement and search engine optimised.
Price:Single Use: $59, Multi Use: $99, Developer: $159
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Gemini
A magazine styled premium WordPress theme designed for content heavy sites wanting to maximise their home page real estate. The theme is very busy but well laid out and designed to be visually pleasing as well as functional. The homepage provides great coverage with links to over 25 articles, recent comments, links, tags and all categories. The theme also features a beautiful AJAX featured article rotator, AJAX slider for posts, comments, tags and RSS, a side blog and video section. Post pages include social bookmark options as well as author sections and links to other posts.
Single License: $60, Developer Licence: $120
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Papercut
A grungy news style premium WordPress theme from WooTheme. The theme features a grungy, illustrative, paper-stained design, with an underlying pixel perfect grid structure. Papercut is easily customisable with built in widgets, and layout control via a theme options page. The theme package also includes 5 different colour schemes which can be easily changed from the Theme Options backend.
Home Page
Single User Licence: $70, Developer License: $150
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The New Yorker
A premium WordPress news theme from StyleWP that allows you to start your own broadsheet online newspaper. The theme features a comprehensive theme control panel (136 settings), dynamic drop-down menu system, 37 widgetised areas, integrated banner management and dynamic video block.
Features
- Comprehensive theme control panel (136 settings)
- 37 Widgetised areas (see map below)
- Dynamic drop-down navigational menu
- Integrated advertisement banner management
- Dynamic video block
- Custom template files (author, date, tag, category, page, search, 404)
- MooFX enabled
- Integrated IE .png Fix
- Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional
- Valid CSS Level 2.1
- Compatible on all major browsers
Price: $39
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Open Air
A premium WordPress theme from Woo Theme. The unique homepage layout and stylish grid based design can work as either a magazine style design or a smart looking personal blog. The theme features a new video gallery section that aggregates all your videos in the one place with video thumbnails linked to a popup lightbox viewer. The theme also comes in 5 different colour variations.
Price: Single Use: $70, Multi Use: $150
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bSocial
A unique premium social / magazine WordPress theme from iThemes that allows you to showcase your best content up front and easily link / submit to social networking sites.
Price: Single Use: $79.95, Multi Use: $149.95
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iNews
a news or magazine style premium WordPress theme from iThemes.
Price: Single Use: $49.95, Multi Use: $79.95
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Magazine News
Beautiful three-column, widget ready, adsense ready, news / magazine style premium WordPress theme. The theme works straight out of the box and features custom category, search, and author pages and a host of other nice features and design touches which really help give this theme it’s complete and finished feel and is sure to give your blog a unique look and gain some extra attention.
Price: Single Site Licence: $75, Developer License: $249
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Arthemia Premium
An attractive and feature packed premium theme for Wordpress. With numerous built in features the theme allows you to turn Wordpress into a powerful content management system (CMS), and can be used to run a corporate website, an online magazine or even a personal blog.
Price: Single Site: $70, Multi Site: $140, Developer: $240
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WP-Vybe
The newest and most advanced WordPress Theme created by Solostream. The theme integrates all the latest functionality available in WordPress 2.6 and features an extensive theme control panel allowing you to easily change a wide range of options and colors.
Single Use: $99, Multi Use: $199, Developer: $299
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News Plus
A beautiful premium magazine theme for WordPress from Zidalgo. One of the most complete, and polished themes available, News Plus sets a new standard for premium WordPress themes. The News Plus theme is stunning straight out of the box, and custom category, search, and author pages really help give this theme a complete and finished feel.
Personal: $75, Developer: $249
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One Theme
An awesome new premium WordPress theme which is one of the most advanced WordPress themes available. One Theme is designed with the user in mind allowing you to easily manage and change the appearance of the theme without requiring any web design experience. The theme comes with a choice of 5 colours, 2 different layouts, and a whole range of other features which can be easily managed from custom made backend control panel. Have a look at the theme demo video here. This is a top quality WordPress theme and is highly recommended.
Single Use: $99, 3 Sites: $199, Developer (5 Sites): $299
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Traveler
A premium WordPress theme from Plug and Press designed for travel / city portal websites or online travel magazine websites. The Traveler theme includes a wide range of features including built in advertising management, video rotator, customisable drop down navigation menus and easy logo uploader. The beautifully designed theme also comes with two style options and 5 background options.
Single Use: $79.95, Multi Use: $179.95, Developer: $279.95
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Celebrity Gossip
A Kineda inspired premium WordPress theme which features a unique photo gallery layout for the home page. The theme features automatic thumbnail creation for the home page, a theme options admin panel to manage advertising, logo, layout options etc and comes in 3 colour styles: light, warm and dark.
Home Page
Single Site: $35, Multi Site: $95
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Premium News Theme
A user-friendly, feature and function-packed theme, which will turn your WordPress site into a great looking magazine / news style site.
Single-Use: $99.95, Developer: $249.95
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WP-Magazine Theme
A fixed-width, professional WordPress theme with multiple layout options and multiple features.
Single-Use: $79, Multiple Use: $179, Developer: $279
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Live Wire Style
Live Wire Style is a feature rich 3 column magazine / newspaper premium WordPress theme.
Single-Use: $70, Developer’s: $150
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Live Wire Edition
Live Wire Edition is a feature rich 3 column magazine / newspaper style premium WordPress theme. Live Wire Edition has a classic look and feel, often associated with newspaper layouts. It makes use of serif typefaces, minimal colour and lots of open space.
Single-Use: $70, Developer’s: $150
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Live Wire 2.0
Live Wire 2.0 is a feature rich 3 column magazine / newspaper style premium WordPress theme in a web 2.0 design.
Single-Use: $70, Developer’s: $150
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News Press
A user-friendly, feature and function-packed theme, which will turn your WordPress site into a great looking magazine / news style site.
Single-Use: $70, Developer’s: $150
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Content Press
Content Press is a multi-column theme, which has a unique, but user-friendly interface. This theme features customized author pages, user avatars, featured articles, customized category and search results. It also includes a bbpress forum theme.
Single-Use: $75, Multi-Site: $249
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The Gazette Edition
A magazine / newspaper style WordPress theme, inspired by the CNN website.
Single-Use: $70, Developer’s: $150
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Flash News
An attractive and very functional magazine / newspaper style WordPress theme.
Single-Use: $70, Developer’s: $150
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Magazine News
A three-column, widget ready, adsense ready theme that is sure to give your blog that unique look that will garner some extra attention.
Price: $49 - $129
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Business & CMS Premium WordPress Themes
Vibrant CMS
A good looking content management system (CMS) premium WordPress theme from WooThemes for business and small companies. The design incorporates some recently popular usability trends (like the featured info scroller on the homepage), and comes with 20 different color schemes.
Single Use: $70, Developer: $150
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Sonartech
A high quality business / content management system (CMS) style premium WordPress theme from StyleWP. Features a comprehensive theme control panel (71 settings), dynamic drop-down menu, multiple promotional blocks and widgetised sidebar.
Price: $31
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WP Remix 2.0
A WordPress powered master theme. The theme is completely customizable, quality coded & comes bundled with over 50 layout options that helps everyone create custom websites.
Personal Package: $55, Developer Package: $155
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Over Easy
An elegant minimalistic business / CMS style premium WordPress theme from Woo Themes. The theme features a slick scroller featured section on the homepage, full width page templates, an integrated blog, 7 different page templates and comes in 10 colour variations.
Home Page
Single Use Package: $70, Multi Use Package: $150
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TechTime
A lightweight premium WordPress theme for corporate and business user looking for a cost-effective online presence. The theme can be used just as a normal blog using a combination of posts, pages and categories, or you can simply use a collection of informational pages to create a stylish static company website.
Home Page
Price: $24
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Titanium
A sleek premium WordPress theme designed for business wanting to use multimedia on their sites. The theme includes a featured images section that allows you to display multiple photos on your home page, drop down navigation menu and 6 different page templates.
Single Use Package: $79.95, Multi Use Package: $149.95
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Pressnoir
Apremium WordPress theme which can be used as a content management system or personal blog.
Price: $26
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Networked Solutions
A lightweight business / corporate premium WordPress theme intended for small to medium sized business wanting a professional website. Taking advantage of the flexibility, ease of use and power of WordPress, the theme allows you to make a stylish website which can include company information, products / services as well as a company blog. The built in theme control panel allows you to easily edit a variety of elements such as choice of images, introductory text, company information in the header and footer and more.
Price: $28
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iCompany Theme
A wide premium WordPress theme designed for businesses wishing to have an integrated blog component in their website, and the versatility of using WordPress as an online content management system.
Ecommerce Theme
A premium WordPress theme designed specifically for online stores.
Single Use: $49, Developers: $199
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Essence
A theme designed to look, feel and function like a traditional website for small business after a elegant, refined look.
Single-Use: $99.95, Multiple-Use Package $249.95
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Corporate Theme
Web 2.0 styled premium WordPress theme designed for businesses and professionals looking for a sharp and glossy corporate website.
Single Use: $29.95, Multi Use: $39.95
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Deep Order
Web 2.0 styled theme designed for businesses who want a clean, cripst and glossy looking website.
Single Use: $79.95, Multiple Use: $149.95
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Industrial Theme Series
Created for professional business websites, like technology, construction, consulting, accounting and medical firms.
Single Use: $45.95, Multiple Use: $99.95
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Video & Multimedia WordPress Themes
eVid Theme
A premium WordPress theme designed for video bloggers. The theme is set it up to easily integrate videos from video hosts such as Youtube, Vimeo, Veoh, MetaCafe etc.
Features
- Widget ready sidebars
- Theme Option Pages
- Custom thumbnail images
Price: $19.95
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TV Elements
TV Elements is a video centric premium WordPress theme specifically designed for higher resolution services such as Vimeo, Blip.TV and can handle videos of any size up to 640px wide.
Features
- Two unique color styles: dark and light
- Video and Standard Blog: ability to write and maintain a standard (non video) blog along side the video functionality
- Simple Posting - Posting videos using TV.Elements is as simple as copying the embed code from the source site and pasting it into a field.
- Works with video from Blip.TV, Flickr, MetaCafe, MySpace, Veoh, Viddler, Vimeo and YouTube, plus almost any other type of embeddable video. You can also embed your own hosted FLV files.
- 4 unique sidebars
- Social links on each video - allows users to copy and embed videos on their sites by click the “embed” button beside each video.
- Tested and fully compatible with the more popular web browsers including FireFox, IE 6/7 and Safari.
- Setup and Usage document included with theme package
Price: $75
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Video Elements
Video Elements is a video gallery style premium WordPress theme designed for the video blogger.
Features:
- Fully widgetized and customizable sidebar
- Two different style layouts: linear and gallery
- “Instant View” for viewing videos on the fly
- Featured video section
- Theme options page
- Supports several video formats including YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, DailyMotion, FLV (Flash) Video, Quicktime and Windows Media Video
- Tested and fully compatible with the more popular web browsers including FireFox, IE6.0, IE7.0, Safari and Opera
Price: $75
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VideoFlick
VideoFlick is a video gallery style premium WordPress theme for video bloggers. The theme features a gallery style layout with a primarily thumbnail navigation scheme.
Features:
- Fully widgetized sidebar
- Four layout and color styles: dark and light color scheme, as well as portrait and landscape thumbnail layout
- Supports: YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, DailyMotion, FLV (Flash) Video, Quicktime and Windows Media Video.
- Installation and usage instructions
- Tested and fully compatible with the more popular web browsers including FireFox, IE6.0 and above, Safari and Opera
Price: $75
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One Demand Theme
The On Demand premium WordPress theme from Press 75 provides a fully featured video site solution.
Features:
- Posting Video is Simple: as simple as copying the embed code from the source site and pasting it into a field
- Works with any embedded video up to 1068px wide including: Blip.TV, Flickr, MetaCafe, MySpace, Veoh, Viddler, Vimeo and YouTube.
- Integrates video and standard blogging in one single package
- 4 unique sidebars
- Social links for each video are automatically populated
- Fully compatible with the more popular web browsers including FireFox 2 and above, Internet Explorer 7 and above, Safari and Opera
Price: $75
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Revolution TV
2 column widget ready video WordPress theme
Features
- 2-Column Fixed Width Theme
- Widget Ready
- Black or white
Price:$59.95
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Revolution Chrome
2 column widget ready theme with video elements.
Features
- 2-Column Fixed Width Theme
- Widget Ready
Price:$59.95
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Blog Premium WordPress Themes
Flexx
A premium WordPress blog theme from iThemes. Flexx is one of the most powerful, flexible and easy to use blog themes available. Flexx features 1,056 possible layout combinations which you can pick and choose with a mouse click, allowing you to build almost any kind of WP site you want, from simple landing pages to complex blog sites. This first series comes in two pre-built color styles, and also features Rotating header image, Plug and Play Graphic Changes, and a Menu Builder allowing you to pick and choose what Pages you want in the menu navigation, including subpages. Check out the demo site with the FlexxTheme layout, which incorporates all the elements in the layout system, and screenshots of some other possibilities.
Price: Single Use Package: $79.95, Developer Package: $249.95
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Gotham News
A clean and elegant magazine / news premium WordPress theme. The theme features a built-in option to centre of left align the layout, automatic image resizer, integrated options panel and comes with 8 colour options.
Price: Single Use Package: $70, Multi Use Package: $150
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Thesis
A powerful, flexible and high quality theme system for WordPress from DIY Themes that makes it easy for anyone to run a professional, customized blog or website. The Thesis theme boats the strongest SEO of any theme on the market due to its expertly coded and optimized HTML + CSS + PHP framework and comes equipped with a powerful and innovative user-friendly options panel that allows easy theme control and customization without coding.
Price:Personal Licence: $87, Developer’s License: $164
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BlogTheme
A trendy personal blog style theme with a great structure from Woo Themes. The theme features some nifty jQuuery effects in the sidebar and comes in 5 vibrant colour schemes.
Price: Free
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Fresh News
The theme features two homepage layout options: the default magazine style layout and a traditional blog layout, and also comes with 6 built in colour schemes.
Single-Use: $99.95, Developer’s: $249.95
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Thick
A super cool personal blog theme from Woo Themes that allows you to publish all of the various elements that builds your personality (photos, lifestream, your favourites etc.). The Thick theme includes both clean & grunge, dark & light styles, as well as 5 different colour schemes for each, making a possible 20 colour / style combo’s in total. The theme has 3 different widgetized spaces (left and right sidebar, along with the middle column on the homepage), an integrated lifestream, and two alternative header layouts.
Clean Style (original)
Single Use Package: $70, Developer Package: $150
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Citrus Theme
A clean, sharp and polished premium WordPress theme from the maker of quality custom blog themes - Unique Blog Designs.
Price: Single Use: $79, Multi Use: $99, Developer’s: $149
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Blog4Cash
A premium WordPress theme ideal for the blogger wanting to start a ‘make money online’ blog. The theme features 24 widgetised areas and a built in theme control panel where you can control a variety if elements without needing to touch a single line of code. There are 5 widget boxes that contain 4 widget spots each, these boxes can be turned on/off as desired.
Price: $28
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Ambience
A premium WordPress blog or lifestream style theme from Woo Themes designed for the personal blogger which allows you to aggregate all your online content in the one place. The theme features a customised life streaming widget, prominent twitter status section, and come in 5 different colour schemes and styles.
Single Use Package: $70, Multi Use Package: $150
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Fresh Folio
A combo portfolio + blog premium WordPress theme. The theme is a mashup of the Fresh News Theme and Proud Folio Theme which combines all the best elements of the respective blog and portfolio style themes. The dual nature homepage is designed to showcase featured portfolio work along with posts from the blog. Beyond the homepage the theme allows separate portfolio and blog sections. The theme comes with 7 diverse styles to choose from.
Home Page (grunge light style)
Single Use Licence: $70, Developer’s License: $150
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Omni
A fun website or blog style WordPress theme. The Omni Theme is xhtml compliant, completely customizable and was created to be extremely easy to change colors, fonts, backgrounds, logos and more. The Omni Theme is available in a variety of colours including: Aqua / Brown, Black, Pink and Tan.
Price: $79.99
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Simple Text
A 3 column blog style WordPress theme from Premium Themes.
Price: $99
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Image Blogger
Three-column premium WordPress theme for bloggers looking to maximize the visibility and ease-of-use of their blog.
Features
- Author grid listing template page for multi-author blogs
- Unlimited colour combinations
- Cleaner image gallery display in posts
- Post Rating System + Stats widget
- Large user-defined photos, with Gravatar fallback
- Threaded user comments
- Twitter Sidebar Feed
- Automatic Thumbnail Generation and Assignment: Thumbnails across the theme will be assigned and generated automatically as requested, for every image size
- Easily customizable display options via extensively commented template files.
- Easy setup and configuration with included documentation
- Image caption support
- Gravatar support for comments and authors
- Fully widgetized sidebar(s)
Personal License: $75, Developer License: $249
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